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> How do you explain the success then? A megacorp funding 100 engineers to work on the compiler, libraries and tooling for 10 years
by kubb 5y ago
> How do you explain the success then?
A megacorp funding 100 engineers to work on the compiler, libraries and tooling for 10 years
- a1369209993 5y agoIn other words, the same way you explain the success of eg Java.
- erik_seaberg 5y agoJava was a safer C++. Go was a safer C. They both ignore a lot of good ideas from other languages, but I find it easier to forgive Java given its age and how much it’s caught up.
- kubb 5y agoJava also had multi-billion dollar marketing campaigns.
- yiyus 5y agoEither Go is a horrible language that did not learn anything or it is a language developed by some of the best engineers for a long time. If you are claiming that both things are true, then how do you explain it?
- kubb 5y agoGoogle engineers are not some demigods or mythical geniuses and people should stop thinking that. They are successful within the framework of what they know, which is mostly C and C++. None of these people have academic background in language design, and it shows.